Nora Friedrichs

Soprano

Nora Friedrichs joined the Opera Studio at Oper Frankfurt last season and took part in the 2014 »Stella Maris« competition (competing against members of seven other international opera studios), winning the Audience Prize. She made her debut in Frankfurt last season, singing Zerlina in the new production of Don Giovanni. During the 2014/15 season her roles for the company are Damigella in a new production of L’incoronazione di Poppea, Yvette in the first ever performances in Frankfurt of Mieczysław Weinberg's Die Passagierin/The (female) Passenger and Zerlina. While studying with Renate Behle and Burkhard Kehring at the Hochschule for Music and Theatre in Hamburg roles she sang elsewhere included Pamina / Papagena (Die Zauberflöte) at Kiel Opera, a role in Rameau's Les Indes Galantes, at the Hamburg State Opera, a production by the opera studio there, and, in the same house, the leading role in Douglas Moore's Gallantry, in 2010. She also appeared at the Gasteig in Munich in gehengehengehen - Kein Theater nach Thomas Bernhard. A busy concert career has included appearances at the »Gustav Mahler Days« in Hamburg, where she appeared alongside Thomas Hampson, the Thalia Theater, the NDR's Rolf-Liebermann-Studio, the Kleine Musikhalle in Hamburg and in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and France. Nora Friedrichs' achievements have been rewarded with, amongst others, a scholarship from the Franz Wirth Memorial Foundation, the »Hermann and Milena Ebel Prize« and prizes at the city of Hamburg's »Mozart Competition« and 2013 »Elise Meyer Competition«. She was a finalist at Germany's 2012 »Nationwide Singing Competition« in Berlin.